The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-11-23
THE TALK OF GOTHAM
Ediiorisl Changes Of the New York Herald
-0Iter Newspaper Gossip.
The Anarchists of New York and Brook.
1yn-Most and His Arrest
Gossip OF the Stage.


numerous, some of them important: and
not few of them are the direct result of
the recent election. The campaign was
largely Influenced by the newspapers, and
1t is not singular that they are effected by
the result of the election.
The Herald and Telegram, both owned
by James Gordon Bennett, have new edi.
tors. Rev. George w. Hepworth has been
monkeying with the editorial page OF the
Herald for two or three years past, aud he
made hodg podg of it. He ran it without
purpose or ideas, ana it came to be re-
garded generally with derision. This weak
ness OF its most important page was con.
temporarous with the sudden activity dis
played by the World, and undoubtedly
helped the World to much'of its great pros
perity. Much of the Worlds gain in cir
culation was a direct loss to the Herald;
and without question the loss must be at
tributed in part to the editorial page. Mr..
Hep1orth has been succeeded by John
Russell Young, formerly of the Tribune,
then of the Standard, (since dead; once
before he was connected with the Herald.
Whatever may be said of oungs' ideas of
property right in news, nobody will deny
that he is a natural as well as trained
ne wspa per man. He probably knows
more about the value of news
and the drift of public opinion
than the rest OF the Herald staff, including
the proprietor. His grace as a writer is
well known, and has long been recognized,
He is eminently fitted to drag the Herald
editorial page out of the slough of inanity
into which it has fallen; and Mr.. Bennett
may again owe to Young a debt Of graft
tude he Is not likely ever to be able to
pay. julius Chambers, the managing
editor, who has been in Paris for months
past trying to rejuvinate the Register and
News under the name of the Paris Herald,
ia nm III tn
The former editor of the Paris News,
Samuel Chamberlain, has been made editor
of the Telegram. This necessitated the
removal of Mr.. Edward Flynn and Robert
Morris. The former takes charge of what
is known as The obituary desk" of the
Herald, and will look after the biographies
ofsthe living great, whose careers, when
ended, sre to be chronicled in the Herald
the day after their demise. Mr. Morris
becomes the business manager of the Tele-
gram, and will endeaver to do for its
finances what he never could do with his
| oWn-take care of them.
The Graphic, as l have announced, was
recently sold TO syndicate OF gentlemen
headed by the energetic President of the
American Electric Manufacturing Com
pany, Mr.. Edwards ii. Golf. There has
already been decidedly apparent Improve
ment in the style and character of the pa
| per. All parties in its management
are agreed that it is idle to at
tempt to make a newspaper of the Graphic
at three cents in competition with such
active papers as the Evening Sunand Even
ing World at one cent, and they will, at
ter brief period issue only a single edi-
ton carefully printed and intended for the
hreside rather than the street. Colonel
| Frank A. Burr, the new editor, has gone
to work with vigor, and has introduced
some new men on the force. Mr.. Clancy
has retired as managing editor. and Burr
now manages himself. Mr.. z. G. Brown,
the business manager, was for years at
tached to the paper, bat not in harmony
with its policy. He remains to carry o1t
his ideas Of developing the business part of
the enterprise. I do not know many of
the others of the force, The ubiquitous
REMUNERATION of 1.-THE Money Makers
and some other novels-turns up as an ed
torial writer, and, as usual, carries with
him his double-barreled ink-stand-one
barrel filed with ink, the other with aqua
FORTS. AS usual, when he gets to work he
not infrequently dips his pen into the
wrong ink stand, and is Just as apt as not
to write of his friends with aquafortis.
You will hear at a distance of the great
fall of in the circulation of the World and
the big boom given The Sun by the recent
election. The truth, reduced to line or
| TWO, Is Lndt the WOrlu mas lOSt gOOu
many readers, but does not feel it yet, for
the papers are not returnable, and the loss
falls on the newsdealers. / fancy that the
! Herald gets the largest part of the gain
from this source, that is the evinence of
the newsdealers, and OF my own observa-
ton.
|
Since the hanging of the four Anarchists
in Chicago last Friday, the police of this
city have been kept busy looking for Herr
Most, and his fellow ruffians. His fiery
speeches made at the Anarchist meeting
the other night are calculated to effect
some of his hearers, and lead them to
crime, in which case under the laws of
this state Most could be prosecuted as "a
principal. II murder was committed as q
result OF Mosts language, he can be hanged
and in this community it would be diff
cult to find a jury of twelve men who
would have any scruples about convictine
him. He is at this writing under arrest.
Across the East river the situation il
even more serious that II is here, and the
Brooklyn police officials have detectives
following the leaders of the Anarchists day
and night. An article in the Times few
days ago of an account of q meeting In
Brooklyg where the speakers advised the
immediate hanging of one of the reporter
has enraged the Anarchists, and some o
them have threatened to Kill the writer
Chief of Police Campbell discovered plar
to furnish every repcrter in town with
dynamite bomb, and he has warned tnest
young writers for the press to refuse II
take any packages coming to them By
messengers unless they know Just wha
they contain. Two of the reporters have
in addition received personal warning
from friends at present working ON tn
Anarchist paper, Volks Zsitung. Thes
communications verified the statemen
of the police that plan for the wholesal
destruction of the newspaper fraternity
has been generated.
Mrs. Potter's play of loyal Love" i
hardly worthy the study she has given IL
The lady looks very lovely in the char
aoter of Inez; but it is q poetic, dream,
character, not an active being, and tn
lady is unable to convey her dreamy ide
and moods to her audiences.
Mrs. Henry e. Abbey appeared on Tues
day night as Naomi Tighe in Robertson
beautiful play of "SonooI," and again con
ssrmed the opinion that she is fnishe
Coincidence. She has q strikingly nanc
come personal appesraace in the part.
The hit of THE Martyr" as produce
last week at the Madison Square Theatre
was made by Miss Annie Russell, VIII
plays the only bright character in tn
piece. WM. r. G. SHAEKs.